It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.